I felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson
IMAGERY: the use of sensory language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience
There are many senses that are evoked through the imagery in this poem. I think the most noticeable ones are feeling of the feet on the floor treading back and forth and the hearing of the drums beating during the service. It was difficult to find taste or smell. The lack of sight could be seen (no pun intended) through the fact that I believe the speaker is imaginatively located inside the coffin. First, there is the showing and then the actual service and procession and finally the coffin is placed in the ground. I think the speaker is slowly being separated from people he or she knows and loves. Going along with the theme of alienation, it seems that this person could not be further from these people than at the very end of the poem when he or she is "dropped down, and down..." (Dickinson 776).
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